Beyond that, these companies are all the ultimate welfare Queens, taking our government money and tax benefits over and over to grow. They would be nowhere without our taxpayer dollars.
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Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
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There's only one way out of this mess: the rapid disassembly of the American internet and the rapid creation of a post-American internet, one built on open, auditable, sovereign digital public goods, internationally built and maintained: pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3... 51/
Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Did decades of protecting systems for US Government. This is Security 101. The arrogance of bro boy developers was bad then, developers wanted perpetual God rights, full Admin, had to convince them it wasn't necessary. But now they really just don't care about protecting anybody but themselves.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo agoWhen an AI company's security tool "escapes containment" and hacks someone else's servers, we need to ask the company "Why do you suck so bad at building secure sandboxes for your hacking tools?" rather than "Why are your hacking tools so amazingly powerful?" 24/
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
How Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything
How Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media.
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American Scoundrel@americanscoundrel.bsky.social · 3mo agoA New Yorker article on the very special relationship between Trump and Roy Cohn just dropped, based upon Kai Bird's new biography of Roy called "American Scoundrel". Pre-order on Amazon.com or Bookshop.org www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Follow this account to learn more about the book.